Tag: IMO

May 4, 2023

Today, transport of passengers and goods accounts for about a quarter of global energy-related CO2 emissions, a share that will grow to 30% by 2050. Therefore, opportunities to accelerate change through pilot projects and uptake of alternative energy need to […]

January 24, 2023

One Sea Secretary General Sinikka Hartonen discusses the key developments in autonomous shipping in 2022 and provides an outlook for the year ahead. 2022 was a year of breakthroughs in autonomous shipping, opening the way for further significant progress in […]

November 15, 2022

84% of shipping traffic goes through Europe, China and the US. If these economies were to regulate ships calling at their ports, they could decarbonise the lion’s share of the industry without the IMO, according to T&E, a European umbrella […]

October 31, 2022

The document was submitted to the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee ahead of its 79th session and the upcoming revision of the Initial IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships as well as the entrance […]

October 21, 2022

Following the success of last year’s symposium, when IMO held discussions about the reduction of GHG emissions from ships, this year’s topic was Ensuring a just and inclusive transition towards low-carbon shipping”. IMO officials stressed the theme reflects the need […]

September 8, 2022

The reduction is equivalent to 8.5 million metric tonnes of sulphur oxides, which are linked to causing asthma, pulmonary, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases. To remind, the 2020 Sulphur Cap has limited the use of sulphur in fuel oil used on […]

August 29, 2022

The Ukrainian prime minister has given the go-ahead for locals to work as seafarers abroad, a significant fillip to crewing levels which have been hit hard in the six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, leading to a mass mobilisation of […]

November 12, 2020

Among the outcomes from the virtual meeting this week of the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) delegates have approved plans to get the UN agency to include a public list of all ports where crew changes are […]

September 11, 2020

The shipping industry is faced with one of the greatest humanitarian crises in years, affecting over half a million people. Six months into the pandemic 300,000 seafarers are stuck at sea, some of them for 17 months, 6 months longer […]

May 22, 2020

The information was collected via the users of the Chamber’s ISF Watchkeeper software, which tracks over 25 million hours of work on board ships undertaken each month by seafarers. The statistics are drawn from the online version of the software […]

October 28, 2019

In light of a spike in fraudulent vessel registrations, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking to combat rogue national flag registries operating without the knowledge of governments they claim to represent. According to the Standard Club, the global maritime […]

September 27, 2018

The topic of a better future for the shipping industry correlates with the introduction of the new regulations which have been in the center of a heated dispute among ship owners and operators as they come to terms with the […]

June 4, 2018

The move, considered as a potentially game-changing development, envisages at least halving the shipping sector’s greenhouse gas emissions over the period, however, without a clear plan of action, many questions have arisen as to how this would be accomplished. Katharine […]

November 28, 2017

The whole world would be watching the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 2018, looking for something of real substance when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, IMO’s Secretary-General Kitack Lim pointed out. “Next year really will […]

October 2, 2017

Almost three-quarters of new ships carrying consumer goods already exceed International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) post-2025 energy efficiency requirement. Some 71% of all new containerships, which emit around a quarter of global ship CO2 emissions, comply with the post-2025 requirements of […]